Comments on the consensus guidelines of the Canadian Society of Transplantation on the eligibility for kidney transplantation. Increase in the incidence and prevalence of end-stage renal disease in Canada from 1981 to 1999; Example of the variation in transplantation rates across Canada; Risk factors of end-stage renal disease.

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